I’m sure there are a thousand Cougar Countries, by different names, across the country. Old burger joints that have clung on into the millennium with their bygone charm and particular fry sauce. We frequented Cougar Country scarily often in high school, with our teenage boredom and metabolisms- Lauren would always get a burger, me chicken strips (mostly because they come with thick, white, greasy toast.) We got back to our roots with a Cougar Country visit and a varsity basketball game, sucking on blackberry milkshakes in the bright gym.

I never noticed the Clam Basket before… kinda scary.Hot Ham n’ Cheese sounds pretty good though, in a terrible American cheese and griddle grease way.

In our many C.C. visits, Laur and I developed ketchup/fry sauce systems. Gotta have both, Lauren mixes them in one cup, I just double dip.

Over-exposed basketball. New camera! Exciting and happy times, a little Canon that lets you pretend you’re using your old-fashioned Nikon and set the aperture and shutter speed yourself! Way more fun and interesting and better than my old point and shoot.

Sad to lose your camera, not so sad to be in France. Your traipsing around Europe eating delicious things posts have been making me jealous! Anyway, it’s a Canon S90! I truly truly love it. I’ve been using a big ol’ film Nikon for a while and really loving it, but the whole film rig-a-ma-roll is getting a bit obnoxious. Buttttt, I didn’t want to go back to digital and lose all the control of a “real” camera. Butttt also didn’t want to lug around a giant DSLR. This camera is somehow in between, it’s still a point and shoot but you can set the aperture and shutter speed and all that (or not.) I’ve been super happy happy with the little guy so far. Does well in low-light aka, in moody tasty restaurants 🙂